Why are we here?

Sometimes I wonder, why are we here?

UFORG RETROSPECTIVE

I just received news that I have a UFO Research Group show at Concordia's VAV gallery in April!
Wow! My first gallery show and right in time for Spring graduation! It will be a retrospective of
older performances as well as new solo performances and video projections!

SNOW SNOW SNOW

OMG no more snow please! I thought last year was insane, but 2009 has the cold factor as well.

Winter 2009

Wow! I found this old India blog from a few years ago, so I thought I would use it to keep the world
up-to-date with what is new and exciting in the world of Jon Asencio. I am back at University finishing
the 6 credits I need to graduate this spring. Yaaay for me! I am taking a class in performance art and another on Frank Zappa.
Bulbousness indeed! Other than that the family is doing well, the kids have the sniffles tho, but nothing serious,
and Sophie is adapting to Monteal's subhuman winter tempuratures (minus thirty! ouch!)...
I guess that's it for now!

lonar temple

Hanging with the locals at the Brahma temple in Lonar...

Bollywood

Here is a pretty typical Bollywood scene, we are all standing around, waiting for the director to
yell "OK- now dance like crazy!" as the smoke machine pumps out a thick cloud of white fog rendering most of the extras more or less invisible. This shoot was for a film called 'Rag'
and this club is supposed to be in London, and it was shot in an actual club
(i can't remember the name) out in Juhu, which is kind of like the Beverly Hills
of Bombay, lifestyles of the rich and famous indeed!

It's been a while, but better late than never...

Seems like ages since I updated my blog-
at the moment I am in Mumbai (Bombay)
working as an extra on TV shows and films,
and having a great time exploring this unique city.
This photo is from Lonar Lake, which was created by
a meteorite (or more likely a comet, according to the American
geologist I met there) some 50,000 years ago.
There are temples around the lake, some of them
seemingly quite ancient. My favourite was the 'Bat Cave' temple,
a small, symetrical, stone temple, full of bats producing an ultra hi pitched
chattering sound, as well as a terrible odour.

FAB INDIA

There is a great clothing store here called Fab India
fabindia.com
I have been in several times but have so far been able to control
myself, only buying one shirt, a super-short kurta in fact,
with a wild red and green interwoven checkered pattern,
like a sort of mini-plaid. It's a bit more expensive than
the cheap cotton shirts I bought on the street,
but those have all started falling apart so I think it's worth spending
a few more rupees and getting something that will last.
I think of Fab India as the Indian version of H&M,
hip and affordable , or as they say here, 'cheap and best!'...